JEREMY HILL
New Hampshire - Hillsborough County
June 2, 1934: "The dirt road wound upward in a great slow spiral, taking what must have been three or four miles to cover the mile of territory which lay between the tiny crossroads settlement of Pelham Center and our goal of Jeremy Hill, 'Jeremiah Hill', the natives told me it used to be called, and as the two of us chugged upward, the reasons for such a doleful moniker became more and more apparent. If no recluse ever toiled to its summit to do his wailing in strictest privacy, the wind would have done it for him. Jeremy Hill, to city eyes, seemed the lonesomest spot on earth.
'Lonesome? Pshaw!' scoffed Ernest J. Teer, keeper of the fire tower and meteorological station which juts up from the hilltop like a thumb bandaged with electrical tape. 'No more lonesome than you are up on top of the Sun Building... We get our mail and our newspapers and magazines just like other folks. We have our flower garden and our radio and a couple of cats to keep us company. And we have t5he grandest view in the whole east. What do you mean, lonesome?'
...The Jeremy Hill station, operated jointly by the U.S. weather bureau and the New Hampshire forest fire service, is one of the four key weather stations in New England.
Their workshop, of course, is the lookout tower. A boxlike contrivance, with windows running the full length of all four sides, it stands 60 feet high on steel stilts anchored deep in the bedrock of Jeremy HiIl. Guy wires strengthen it also, so that engineers guarantee it to stand in a wind of 125 miles per hour. The highest wind velocity ever recorded by the anemometer which twirls atop the tower, during the season when the Teers are on duty, registered 76 miles an hour. Winds of lower speed than that sweep over the unprotected hill in time of storm, snapping the tops of pines like match sticks." (The Lowell Sun) (portions of a story written by Fred G. Hyde)
'Lonesome? Pshaw!' scoffed Ernest J. Teer, keeper of the fire tower and meteorological station which juts up from the hilltop like a thumb bandaged with electrical tape. 'No more lonesome than you are up on top of the Sun Building... We get our mail and our newspapers and magazines just like other folks. We have our flower garden and our radio and a couple of cats to keep us company. And we have t5he grandest view in the whole east. What do you mean, lonesome?'
...The Jeremy Hill station, operated jointly by the U.S. weather bureau and the New Hampshire forest fire service, is one of the four key weather stations in New England.
Their workshop, of course, is the lookout tower. A boxlike contrivance, with windows running the full length of all four sides, it stands 60 feet high on steel stilts anchored deep in the bedrock of Jeremy HiIl. Guy wires strengthen it also, so that engineers guarantee it to stand in a wind of 125 miles per hour. The highest wind velocity ever recorded by the anemometer which twirls atop the tower, during the season when the Teers are on duty, registered 76 miles an hour. Winds of lower speed than that sweep over the unprotected hill in time of storm, snapping the tops of pines like match sticks." (The Lowell Sun) (portions of a story written by Fred G. Hyde)
August 10, 1934: "A very large turkey buzzard was observed by E. J. Teer, watchman of Jeremy Hill forest fire lookout in Pelham, Wednesday afternoon. The huge bird was observed at a close distance from the tower with powerful binoculars as it circled over Jeremy Hill for several minutes. This species is very rare in this locality. Mr. Teer is positive in the identification of the bird. He is a native of Texas, where buzzards are numerous." (The Portsmouth Herald and Times)
September 26, 1967: "Pelham Police officials report that vandals broke into the State Forest Fire Lookout tower on Jeremy Hill last week. Watchman Malcolm Popp discovered the break when he returned to duty after a day off. Entry was gained by smashing locks on the doors of the garage and the trapdoor leading to the tower itself. State Police and N.H. Forestry officials are investigating. A number of items of value are missing including some tools belonging to Mr. Popp." (Nashua Telegraph)